Leicester

Leicester is a city and is the county town of Leicestershire, England through which the River Soar flows.

Leicester as a settlement goes back to before Christ, the earliest records of it being as the capital of the Celtic Corieltauvi tribe who ruled over what is now the East Midlands. The Corieltauvi submitted peacefully to Roman rule in the first century AD, and the settlement was fortified and became known as Ratae Corieltauvorum. It was settled by Saxons soon after Roman retreat from Britain, and later, briefly, captured by the Vikings.

The railway station was built in Victorian times and is a regional interchange.